You Can See It From Space!

Much like the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids, our new playhouse, now complete, can also be seen from space. We just wanted to have something built that would use up a lot of the wood from the giant crates in which all of our stuff was shipped. We got a good recommendation for a guy who did a friend's playhouse and I messed around on the internet to find something I liked. If I am being kind I could say we took the original inspiration and ran with it. Or, more realistically, one could say that things got a titch out of hand...

At any rate, K loves it as do all the kids who come over and play. We have plans for additional after-market accessories as well. I think a cargo net on one side would be fun. And since we have some leftover wood perhaps a balance beam or something similar off to one side. We are having to get new tires for my vehicle so I think we will take two and half bury them upright as additional climbing/jumping devices. And a slide will probably appear eventually as well.

The real goal of the backyard has been achieved which is that I can sit on the patio and drink my coffee or gin and tonic (depending on the time of the day, though sometimes those distinctions can get dangerously tricky!) and passively watch the running amuck. Of course, in a couple of months when T starts moving around I will be forced to realize what a death trap I have assembled and will have to run after her like crazy... oh wait, no I won't, that's why I have nannies! Back to that G&T!

In other news, I finally got bored feeding T just pureed veggies and fruits and figured she was ready to move on to bigger and better things so she had banana bread today and liked it very much. Now we can slowly start to transitioning to just letting her eat little bits of whatever we are having, which is much more convenient.

Fair warning, things are getting really crazy here with work for both C and myself and will remain that way through mid-June, unfortunately. Lots of VIPs and VVIPs and VVVIPs and whatever other silliness all requiring various levels of handholding and generally much to-doing. So, its not that we don't want to respond to emails more... its that we are actually having to work at work, which is a real bummer.